PART 8 E+WApplications for planning permission made to the Welsh Ministers

Publicity where an environmental statement is submitted after the planning applicationE+W

35.  Regulation 19 applies as if paragraphs (2) and (3) read—

(2) The applicant must publish in a local newspaper circulating in the locality in which the land is situated a notice stating—

(a)the applicant's name, that an application is being made to the Welsh Ministers for planning permission and the address of the Welsh Ministers;

(b)the date on which the application was made;

(c)the address or location and the nature of the proposed development;

(d)that a copy of the application, any accompanying plan and other documents, and a copy of the environmental statement may be inspected by members of the public at all reasonable hours;

(e)an address in the locality in which the land is situated at which those documents may be inspected, and the latest date on which they are available for inspection (being a date not less than 30 days later than the date on which the notice is published);

(f)details of a website maintained by or on behalf of the Welsh Ministers on which the environmental statement and other documents may be inspected, and the latest date on which they will be available for access (being a date not less than 30 days later than the date on which the notice is published);

(g)an address (whether or not the same as that given under sub-paragraph (e)) in the locality in which the land is situated at which copies of the statement may be obtained;

(h)that copies may be obtained there so long as stocks last;

(i)if a charge is to be made for a copy, the amount of the charge;

(j)that any person wishing to make representations about the application must make them, before the date named in accordance with sub-paragraph (e) or (f), whichever is the latest, to the Welsh Ministers; and

(k)the address to which representations should be sent.

(3) An applicant who is notified under regulation 32(4) of such a person as mentioned in that regulation, must serve a notice on every such person; and the notice must contain the information specified in paragraph (2), except that the date noted as the latest date on which the documents will be available for inspection must not be less than 21 days later than the date on which the notice is first served.